Trochus always die on me. Nerite snails have done well for me, and are very pretty. Ceriths always die on me. Nassarius are by far the most valuable in my eyes. They clean up left over food and move around the sand. I would start with 2. Cleaner shrimp are drama queens and will steal food out of your corals mouths. Then they want to get pampered and be spot fed... Cute but useless. you already know how I feel about hermit crabs.
What would you recommend for an algae eater?
I agree with your last statement. When I put hermits and snails in at the same time, the hermits do their thing and snails are gone.
On the glass or rocks?
Rock, glass usually hasn’t been to much of a problem for me in the past
Lawnmower blenny. Do you have clown fish?
Sadly, I couldn’t get a good source of live rock (plus it’s double expensive.) But yeah I was set on getting a pair of Darwin Clowns, and a clown goby
Chestnut Turbo snails and tiger turbo snails are mowing down hair algae in my set up.
